Winslow Public Library will be hosting Marshall Shore for a lively discussion of Arizona’s Mother Road: Iconic Route 66. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in Winslow’s historic Hubbard Building, 523 W. Second St. John Steinbeck called Route 66 the “mother road” for Depression-era migrant workers and that name endures today.
Join this trip down Arizona’s Route 66 and add to the discussion about its role in The Grapes of Wrath.
This program is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, and locally presented by the West Valley Arts Council with support from the Arizona State Library.
January is the “Big Read,” a national effort to encourage readers to visit a great American novel. This year’s book is The Grapes of Wrath, and copies are available for check out at the Winslow Library.

Photo courtesy of the Winslow Public LibraryMarshall Shore, the Hip Historian and a librarian by trade, will share a lively discussion of Arizona’s Mother Road: Iconic Route 66 with audience members on Thursday, Jan. 24, in Winslow.